Enterprise Cyber Security Architect

Job Description

About This Role

The Enterprise Cloud Security Architect reports to the CISO and is responsible for the integration and development of standards, processes, tools, technologies, and security service offerings. This individual will leverage leading-edge technologies, and innovative approaches to position Biogen for measurable success; improving efficiency, increasing security posture, supporting aggressive growth and improving the Biogen’s overall Cyber Security posture.

We are looking for someone with subject matter expertise in Enterprise Security Architecture Governance and industry standard Cyber Security frameworks, Cloud Computing, cloud architecture.

What You’ll Do

This is a highly visible role. The right candidate must have excellent engagement and communication skills and must have a strong customer-focused, team-oriented, approach that balances security needs and user experience to provide best-in-class security to the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with enterprise IT architects, engineering, and security specialists to ensure adequate security solutions and controls are in place throughout all IT systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Assess and understand the Biogen’s current security posture and future architecture, providing recommendations for improvement and risk reduction
• Develop the business, information, and technical artifacts that constitute the enterprise information security architecture and solutions
• Serve as a security expert in application development, database design, network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and security policies, industry regulations, and best practices
• Develop Security architecture, frameworks, and standards
• Evaluate and develop secure solutions, based on approved security architectures
• Communicate security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff
• Design security configuration guidelines for information technology devices and systems, as well as mechanisms for assessing compliance within those guidelines

Qualifications

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with enterprise IT architects, engineering, and security specialists to ensure adequate security solutions and controls are in place throughout all IT systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Assess and understand the Biogen’s current security posture and future architecture, providing recommendations for improvement and risk reduction
• Develop the business, information, and technical artifacts that constitute the enterprise information security architecture and solutions
• Serve as a security expert in application development, database design, network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and security policies, industry regulations, and best practices
• Develop Security architecture, frameworks, and standards
• Evaluate and develop secure solutions, based on approved security architectures
• Communicate security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff

Design security configuration guidelines for information technology devices and systems, as well as mechanisms for assessing compliance within those guidelines Required Skills

Basic Qualifications

• 7-12  Years of combined experience in Information Security and Cloud Computing
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or equivalent industry experience is highly preferred.
• CISSP Certification
• Well-rounded background in host, network, database, application security including mobile and web
• Experience as a technical lead or experience leading projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
• Experience administering network devices, databases, and/or web application servers;
• Experience in application security and SDLC.  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills including the ability to influence others, including proven ability to build strong relationships with leadership, IT staff and peers
• SANS Certifications
• Understanding of cloud technologies and services with enterprise-level design experience
• Strong experience with AWS security solutions and in securing AWS workloads;
• Understanding and experience securing CDN technologies (Akamai, Cloudfront, etc.), effective authentication and authorization strategies for edge-node served content, and general content protection str